Year Joined RCNJ: 2006
Courses Offered:
- Introduction to International Studies; Introduction to Anthropology; Latin American Culture and Civilization; Urban Anthropology; Crossing Borders: Growing Up Latino Politics, Culture; and Identity Food and Culture International Migration
Teaching Interest:
Urban Anthropology, Political Anthropology, Anthropology of Europe, Anthropology of the Americas, National, Racial and Ethnic Identity, Migration and Transnationalism, Latino Studies, Population and Society, Anthropological Demography, Research Methodology, Anthropological Theory, Applied Anthropology, Social Problems, International Relations.
Research Interest:
Migrant Assimilation and Marginalization, National Identity, Nationalism, Ethnicity; International Migration, Anthropological Demography; Politics, Symbols, Culture and International Relations; Food and Identity; Italy, Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
Recent Publications:
2006. "Migrant Mirrors: The Replication and Reinterpretation of Local and National Ideologies as Strategies of Adaptation by Foreign Immigrants in Bergamo, Italy," American Behavioral Scientist, 50(1):27-47.
2006. "Food Fights at the EU Table: The Gastronomic Assertion of Italian Distinctiveness." In Consuming Cultures: Food, Drink and Identity in Europe, edited by Thomas M. Wilson. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers. (With Sara M. Bergstresser)
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